# Problem with Bulk Indexing **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [April 26, 2011, 12:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-bulk-indexing/4295 "2011-04-26T12:34:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nir\_Rubinstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8c91f0/32.png) [@Nir\_Rubinstein](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nir_Rubinstein)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 12:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-bulk-indexing/4295/1 "2011-04-26T12:34:51Z")
Hello I'm very new to ES and I'm trying to come to terms with a problem that I have. I've installed ES on my local machine (Windows 7) and have it running. I'm using .NET to send basic http command to ES on port 9200. I can index single records without any problem, but when I try to index multiple documents at once, I encounter a problem. I send a "PUT" request to [http://localhost/bulk](http://localhost/bulk) and transfer it a json document as shown in the example on the ES site (on a side note, the site states to use the "\_bulk" uri while I use "bulk" because the former doesn't yield any results). I receive a 200 response with a json result of {"ok":true,"acknowledged":true} Every bulk command I send hereafter get a 400 "Bad Request" status back (even though the singular index commands work as usual). What am I missing - is there an action I need to do after sending this bulk doc? Any help will be greatly appreciated ---
**Author:** ![Nir\_Rubinstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8c91f0/32.png) [@Nir\_Rubinstein](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nir_Rubinstein)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 12:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-bulk-indexing/4295/2 "2011-04-26T12:41:15Z")
Ok, found my first mistake - using the "bulk" uri is a mistake because it creates an index named "bulk". I tried "PUT"ing the json document to [http://localhost:9200/\_bulk](http://localhost:9200/_bulk) but got a 500 response in return. The body of the document is: { "index" : { "\_index" : "test", "type" : "type1", "\_id" : "3" } } \n{ "field1" : "value2" } notice the "\n" used to separate the metadata from the data (as shown on the site). This is a bulk index of only 1 record, but I still can't get it to work. Again, any help will be welcomed! Thanks! On Apr 26, 3:34 pm, Nir Rubinstein [nir...@gmail.com](mailto:nir...@gmail.com) wrote: > Hello > > I'm very new to ES and I'm trying to come to terms with a problem that > I have. I've installed ES on my local machine (Windows 7) and have it > running. I'm using .NET to send basic http command to ES on port 9200. > I can index single records without any problem, but when I try to > index multiple documents at once, I encounter a problem. > > I send a "PUT" request tohttp://localhost/bulkand transfer it a json > document as shown in the example on the ES site (on a side note, the > site states to use the "\_bulk" uri while I use "bulk" because the > former doesn't yield any results). I receive a 200 response with a > json result of {"ok":true,"acknowledged":true} > > Every bulk command I send hereafter get a 400 "Bad Request" status > back (even though the singular index commands work as usual). What am > I missing - is there an action I need to do after sending this bulk > doc? > > Any help will be greatly appreciated ---
**Author:** ![Clinton\_Gormley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 12:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-bulk-indexing/4295/3 "2011-04-26T12:45:01Z")
Hi Nir > I send a "PUT" request to [http://localhost/bulk](http://localhost/bulk) and transfer it a json > document as shown in the example on the ES site (on a side note, the > site states to use the "\_bulk" uri while I use "bulk" because the > former doesn't yield any results). You can't change the URI from '\_bulk' to 'bulk' - it changes the meaning completely: ie use index 'bulk' instead of action '\_bulk' So the question is why your original request (which does use '\_bulk') doesn't work. You haven't provided any example of what you are actually doing (see [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/help) ) but perhaps you're missing the final newline at the end of your request. clint ---
**Author:** ![Nir\_Rubinstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8c91f0/32.png) [@Nir\_Rubinstein](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nir_Rubinstein)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 12:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-bulk-indexing/4295/4 "2011-04-26T12:48:23Z")
Yup - saw my mistake - see my post above. I also tried adding a "\n" at the end of the json document to the same effect. Thanks again On Apr 26, 3:45 pm, Clinton Gormley [clin...@iannounce.co.uk](mailto:clin...@iannounce.co.uk) wrote: > Hi Nir > > > I send a "PUT" request tohttp://localhost/bulkand transfer it a json > > document as shown in the example on the ES site (on a side note, the > > site states to use the "\_bulk" uri while I use "bulk" because the > > former doesn't yield any results). > > You can't change the URI from '\_bulk' to 'bulk' - it changes the meaning > completely: ie use index 'bulk' instead of action '\_bulk' > > So the question is why your original request (which does use '\_bulk') > doesn't work. > > You haven't provided any example of what you are actually doing (seehttp://www.elasticsearch.org/help) but perhaps you're missing the final > newline at the end of your request. > > clint ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 4:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-bulk-indexing/4295/5 "2017-07-06T04:07:40Z")